eBay Miniature Rescues is back again with another video, and this time he’s showing why your pewter minis don’t have to suck!
eBay Miniature Rescues is a unique channel that shows you how to take beat up, damaged minis, and restore them to their fullest potential! It’s a relatively new channel on YouTube and it’s super fun to watch what Casey is able to do with some once hopeless miniatures.
Be sure to check out all his stuff here! This week, he shows us why those old (or new) metal models don’t have to suck! check it out.
Pewter Minis Don’t Have to Suck: eBay Miniature Rescue
Shadowsun is the mini he’s going to be rescuing this time around. To start he strips the mini of its old glue and paint. Let’s see how he goes from there.
Laying Out the Mini
To start, he lays out his design on paper. Since she has so many things flying around her, it gives you a ton of room to make something cool. He wants Shadowsun right in the middle with everything pointing to her. This is where having extra bits and a 3D printer comes in handy since he doesn’t know how he’s going to achieve this yet! Also, make sure you size your parts to the current base size.
Pinning and Drilling
He drills everything out and makes sure to pin it. This helps metal models since the glue doesn’t always hold as well with plastic mini. Just to note, he printed out a generator, but you could do this with any Tau-looking bits you have laying around.
Basing the Mini & Priming
He uses super glue and adds on a bunch of sand to fill the gaps and make the mini look as they belong together. This adds similarity to the overall mini. Then he primes the entire model. But this is a personal choice because he doesn’t know how everything else is going to fit together.
Incorporating the Drones
He cuts some wooden dowels at the size he wants. Then he angles the dowels to the angles he wants the drones at. He does a lot of testing here to make sure it will work well.
Painting the Base
He starts with a Brown Primer over the white. Next, he varnishes it and then hits the whole thing with hairspray. This will let you get a really cool chipping effect. After that, he does an airbrush level of a bone color. To finish off the chipping he takes the back of a brush and pulls off some of the bone to pull the brown from underneath. To finish this stage off he does a brown varnish on everything to bring out all the colors.
The Diorama
There you have it! He’s going to actually paint the rest of the mini in another video, so stay tuned for more!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
Job Title: Head Writer & Editor
Socials: @paschbass
About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
